Re: A pk is *both* a physical and a logical object.

"Jan Hidders" <hidders_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
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> That is certainly a fact, but I'm not sure if I'm not more worried by> the Dumpty Humpties, i.e., those that will insist that there is only> one true meaning of a word and every attempt to redefine it is no less> than sacrilege. My guess is that it is the fundamentalists that we> need to worry about more.

I guess that depends how they do it. One cannot have a conversation where
the participants can equivocate (as we see here time and time and time
again). The domain of discourse has to be firmly established and within it
there can be only one definition of any term. Insisting on that kind of
discipline isn't funamentalism in my book, it's just a prerequisite to
communication.

On the other hand if your Dumpty Humpties try to insist the same term has to
mean the same thing in all realms of discourse they'd clearly be insane,
stupid, or trolling. And that's not fundamentalism either.

(Hmm. Perhaps I just argued that there is no such thing as a
fundamentalist. That'd be an interesting claim...)